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have aneisan haadz i Is sorss thing 70
have al uneleaa hearE How many people
there are II 0s1F time who are ye4s anxious
thst after thsir death tbey shall - baried
With their feet toward the east. snd not AZ az
anxioas that dariaz Their whole life thsf
sAould face ia tbs n ght direction 50 thar they
shall come up ia ths resurrection q Tie just
whichever way they are buFi~i. How MANY
there are chiefly anxious that minister &
The Gospel snail coAas ia the has u apostolic
sns,sassson. not caring 50 much whether be
comes from Apostle Pzul or Apostle Judas.
Trey hsye a way u measuring gnat untli
it Is larger than saHiel-
Agsin. My sabjecs photographs al those
who are abhorrent u small siIs. while they
are reckless IN regard 20 nlagnihoent thet,s.
You viii find many q merchant Who, while
Of cloth or : spool Of ootton FROM the oour
ter without paying for It, and who, If bans
cashier should make mistake AMI send in
roll Of bills s. too much. would dispatch a
messenger ~ 10; haste 20 return the Surplus,
vt who Will go into sock company IN
which sfter a while he gets control OF the
stock. and then waters the stock and makes
$4,000 appear ike 100000. lie only
stole 500. 600 by the operation. Many Of
tie men OF fortune made their wealth in that
way One of those men, engaged IN such I'M
righteous acts, that evening, the evening OF
the very day when he wstered the stock, will
ind wharf rat stealing = newspaper from
the basement doorway, and viii 20 out ana
| catch the urchin BY the collar, and twist the
collar SO tightly the poor fellow cannot say
| that il was thirst for knowledge that led him
10 tina dishonest act, but grip the collar
tighter and tighter, saying: II have been
looking for you long while; you stole
nv paper four or five times. haven't youl-
YOU miserable wretch And then the old
stock gambler. with voice they can hear
| three blocks, Will cry out: Police, policelH
| That same man, the evening of the day in
| which he watcred the stock, viii kneel
with his family in prayers and thank
/ God for the prosperity OF the day
then kiss his children good night
| with an air which seems to say, Il hope you
| viii all grow up to be good az your
| father Prisons for sins insectiie n size.
| but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No
| mercy for sins animalcule in proportion, but
| great leniency for rnastodon iniquity.
poor boy slyly takes from the basket of
market woman a choice pear-saving some
| one else from the cholera-and you smother
him in the horrible atmosphere Of Raymond
Street Jail or New York Tombs, while his
cousin, who has been skillful enough TO steal
$4,000 from the city, you viii make him
candidate for the New York legislaturel
There is a great deal of uneasness and ner
vousness now among some people in our
time who have gotten unrightcous fortunes,
a great deal OF nervousness about dynamite
tell them that God viii put under their un-
righteous fortunes something more explosive
| than dynamite, the earthquake of his omnip-
| otent indignation. 1t is tins that we learn
! in America that sin is not excusable in pro
portion as it declares large dividends and has
outriders in equipage Many man is riding
20 perdition, position ahead and lackey be-
hind. To steal one copy OF a newspaper is a
gnat; to steal many thousands of dollars is n
camel There is many fruit dealer who would
| not consent 10 Stebt y BdShct Vi TetCilcS lIOil
a neighbor's stall, but who would not scruple
10 depress the fruit market; and as long as
l can remember we have read every summer
the peach crop of Maryland is a failure, and
by the time the crop comes in the misappre-
hension makes difference of millions Of dol
lars. 4 man who would not steal one peach
basket steals 50, 900 peach baskets. Go down
in the summer time into the Mercantile
library, in the reading room, and see the
newspaper reports of the crops from all parts
OF the country, and their phraseology is very
much the same, and the same men wrote
them, methodically and UNANIMOUSLY carry
ing out the huge lying about the grain
crop from year TO year and for a
score OF years After a while there viii
be a corner in the wheat market, end men
who had a contempt fer petty theft Will
burglarize the wheat bin of nation and
commit larceny upon the American corn
crib And some OF the men will sit in
churches and in reforrnatory institutions try
ing to strain out the small gnats of scoundrel
ism, while in their grain elevators and their
storehouscs they are fattening huge camel:
which they expect after while 10 swallow
Society has 70 be entirely reconstructed OF
this subject. We are to find that sin is in
excuSable in proportion as it is great.
know in our time the tendency is to chargt
religious frauds upon good men. They say
ooh. what class of frauds you have in TIA.
Church Of God in this day" and when al
elder Of church or a deacon or minister o.
the Gospel or a superintendent of a Sabbath
school turns out defaulter, what display
heads there are in many OF the newspapers
Great primer type. Five line plea 'Anothel
Saint Absconded.7 Clerical Scoundrel
ism" "Religion az a Discount "Sham
on the Churches." while there are
thousand scoundrels outside 70 wher
there is one inside the church, anS
the misbehavior Of those who never So
the inside Of a church is 70 great IL is enough
To TEMPT a man TO become Christian 70 &c
out OF their company. But in all circles
religious and irrshgious, the tendency IS .
excuse sin in proportion as it IS mammoth
Even John Milton in his Paradise Lost
while be condemns Satan, gives such gran,
description Of him you have hard work Z
suppress your admiration Oh, this strain
ing out Of small sins like gnats and this guiF
Ing down great iusquities like camels.
This subject does not give the picture o
T one or two persons. bat "a -allerv in vhic
thousands Of people may Sc their Likeness
Scr instance. al those people who, while tee
woald not roo their neigbbor OF fsrtbina
, srrrovriate the money and the treasure Q
/ the public. A man has house % sell, an
. he tells his customer il il worth 80 -
; Next dav the assessor conaCs around a.
, tae o-ner says il is worth $1,000. "a
: government Of the United States to
or the tax from personal income, su4on
other reasons hecsuse 50 few poop
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